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The next big financial 'services' scandal

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The next big financial 'services' scandal

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Postby Stonge » February 2nd, 2019, 9:14 am

The death of the fund...

https://www.investmentnews.com/article/ ... comes-next
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Re: The next big financial 'services' scandal

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Postby syrio » February 2nd, 2019, 12:25 pm

Biggest load of self serving bullshit I have read today.
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Re: The next big financial 'services' scandal

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Postby MyNameIsUrl » February 5th, 2019, 4:02 pm

Monevator has a mention of the article:

https://monevator.com/ethical-investing ... dex-funds/
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Re: The next big financial 'services' scandal

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Postby GeorgeR » February 27th, 2019, 9:37 am

CharlotteEvans wrote:I heard, fund investors now migrate to crowdfunding platforms. Is that true?


Yes, I heard it. I don't understand why, maybe they find it safer?
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Postby dspp » February 27th, 2019, 10:31 am

Personally I too think the next big finance scandal will be crowdfunding in its various guises.
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Postby GoldRush » February 27th, 2019, 10:42 pm

Peer to peer lending is my guess. With lots of sob stories from all the pensioners that put all their eggs in one basket...
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Re: The next big financial 'services' scandal

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Postby yorkshirelad1 » February 28th, 2019, 10:37 am

Stonge wrote:The death of the fund...

https://www.investmentnews.com/article/ ... comes-next


equity release (as witnessed by the increasing quantities of advertising on day time TV....)
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Postby Alaric » February 28th, 2019, 12:26 pm

yorkshirelad1 wrote:equity release


We've been there before

https://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/equity ... -brom-27m/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/i ... 171015.stm

In 1991, the City watchdog - then the Securities and Investment Board - outlawed stockmarket-linked home-income plans.
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